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Monday, January 01, 2007

BLAH EDITORIAL...

...in the Orlando Sentinel this morning, merely rehearsing the amazing statistics about Florida's shameful university system:

... Florida's college students crowd into fewer classrooms; the state has the most students per full-time professor in the country. ... Florida pays professors less, making it harder to attract and keep good faculty; the state ranks 41st in the nation in the experience level of its instructors. ...[F]ewer Floridians are getting a college degree; the state produces fewer graduates per 1,000 population than the national average.... [N]o Florida university -- not even the flagship University of Florida -- is ranked among the nation's top 25 universities.


It's a short, disengaged piece, which doesn't really seem to care about any of this.